Porto District

District of Porto
District
parishes		383
Capital	Porto
Area
• Total	2,395 km2 (925 sq mi)
Population
• Total	1,817,172
• Density	760/km2 (2,000/sq mi)
ISO 3166 code	PT-13
No. of parliamentary representatives	39

The

to the east.

Its area is 2,395 km² (925 sq mi) and its population is 1,817,172. In 2017, the main legal foreign populations were from Brazil (9,442), China (2,475), Ukraine (2,160), Italy (1,273), Spain (1,189), Angola (1,118), and Cape Verde (1,040). These numbers exclude those who obtained Portuguese citizenship, which is regular among recent Portuguese Brazilians or Portuguese-Africans.^[1]

Municipalities

The district comprises 18 municipalities:

• Amarante
  [city]
• Baião
  [town]
• Felgueiras
  [city]
• Gondomar
  [city]
• Lousada [town]
• Maia
  [city]
• Marco de Canaveses [city]
• Matosinhos [city]
• Paços de Ferreira [city]
• Paredes
  [city]
• Penafiel
  [city]
• Porto [main city]
• Póvoa de Varzim [city]
• Santo Tirso [city]
• Trofa
  [city]
• Valongo [city]
• Vila do Conde [city]
• Douro River
  .

All of the above Municipalities are Cities, except Baião and Lousada. Some municipalities include one or more cities;the municipality of Paredes has the most cities within its municipality: Paredes,

. Other cities in Porto district: Rio Tinto and Valbom (in Gondomar municipality), Ermesinde (in Valongo municipality), São Mamede de Infesta (in Matosinhos municipality), Freamunde (in Paços de Ferreira municipality) and Lixa (in Felgueiras municipality).

Main Airport

.

Main Harbour

Leixões in Matosinhos, Porto area.

Summary of votes and seats won 1976–2022

Summary of election results from Porto district, 1976–2022

Parties	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S
	1976		1979		1980		1983		1985		1987		1991		1995		1999		2002		2005		2009		2011		2015		2019		2022
PS	40.7	18	34.8	14	34.3	14	43.0	18	23.6	10	26.7	11	32.9	13	46.7	18	48.0	19	41.2	17	48.5	20	41.8	18	32.0	14	32.7	14	36.7	17	42.5	19
PSD	27.0	11	In AD				26.2	10	29.3	12	50.9	22	51.3	21	36.4	14	32.7	13	40.0	16	27.8	12	29.2	12	39.2	17	In PàF		31.2	15	32.3	14
CDS-PP	15.7	6					12.5	5	9.8	4	4.0	1	4.1	1	7.8	3	7.5	3	8.4	3	6.9	2	9.3	4	10.0	4			3.3	1	1.5
PCP/APU/CDU	8.4	3	14.5	6	11.9	5	13.6	5	12.1	5	9.4	4	6.4	2	6.0	2	6.2	2	4.6	1	5.4	2	5.7	2	6.2	2	6.8	3	4.8	2	3.3	1
AD			44.5	18	46.6	19
PRD									20.5	8	4.0	1
BE																	2.3		2.7	1	6.7	2	9.2	3	5.1	2	11.1	5	10.1	4	4.8	2
PàF																											39.6	17
PAN																													3.5	1	1.7
IL																													1.5		5.1	2
CHEGA																													0.6		4.4	2
Total seats	38								39				37						38				39						40
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições

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